Teenager killed in car accident

Georgea Kovanis Detroit Free Press Published 5:22 PM EST Dec 19, 2018 Car accidents were the number one cause of death of children and teenagers in 2016, according to a new University of Michigan study published in the News England Journal of Medicine. Sixty percent of the deaths of the 20,360 children and teens ages 1-19 were preventable, the study determined. Firearms were the number two cause of death, killing more than 3,140 children and teens, or about eight a day. “Homicides account for 60 percent of those deaths, suicide about 35 percent, unintentional or accidental injuries about one percent and mass shootings slightly less than one percent," said Dr. Rebecca Cunningham, a professor in the U-M Department of Emergency Medicine and the lead author of the study. Read more: Shooting deaths occur at the same rate in urban, rural and suburban settings, the study said. Youths living in urban areas are twice as likely to die in homicides as those who live in … [Read more...] about Car accidents, guns top causes of death for US kids

Breaking News PUBLISHED: 14:58 15 October 2018 | UPDATED: 15:05 15 October 2018 Brad Jones Ewan Clover, aged 19-years-old and from Rougham, sadly died at the scene Picture: SUFFOLK CONSTABULARY A 19-year-old killed in an accident on the A14 at Rougham involving a police car and ambulance has been named. Ewan Clover, from Rougham, died at the scene of the incident at around 4.35am on Sunday morning.It happened on the westbound carriageway when a car, followed by a police vehicle and then an ambulance, were all involved in a collision with Mr Clover who was in the carriageway. Neither the police car or the ambulance were responding to an emergency at the time and as such were not travelling on ‘blue light’ runs. The police vehicle was conveying a person under arrest to custody and the ambulance had a patient on board, however no one in either of these vehicles, or the other car involved, sustained any injuries. Suffolk Police have … [Read more...] about Teenager killed in A14 accident tragedy is named

PUBLISHED: 19:12 24 July 2018 | UPDATED: 19:12 24 July 2018 Kye Mclean and Zac Smith. Picture: SUFFOLK POLICE Archant Two teenage friends travelling together in a car were tragically killed after hitting a patch of standing water and colliding with a tree, an inquest has heard. Flowers left at the scene of the fatal accident on the B1115, near Chilton Airfield. Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWNZac Smith and Kye McLean, both 18, died following the single-vehicle crash on the B1115 Great Waldingfield Road, near Chilton Airfield, on August 9 last year. The pair were travelling in a silver Vauxhall Corsa and driver Zac, of North Rise, Great Cornard, and passenger Kye, of Rockhall Road, Polstead, were both pronounced dead at the scene.Suffolk Coroners’ Court heard today that heavy rain throughout the day of the accident had caused a build-up of standing water on the road and it was raining at the time of the incident.As the Corsa went to overtake a Land Rover Discovery on the road going … [Read more...] about Teenagers killed in tragic crash hit standing water on road

Police believe speed may have been a factor when the vehicle hit a concrete wall and immediately caught on fire. Police and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating a recent fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S.Three 18-year-old teenagers were traveling in the Model S on Seabreeze Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a concrete wall."The vehicle immediately caught on fire, becoming fully engulfed in flames," the FLPD said in a statement. "The speed of which the vehicle was traveling is believed to have been a factor in the traffic crash."The driver and front seat passenger were pronounced deceased at the crash scene, while the backseat passenger was ejected and transported to a nearby hospital.The involvement of a Tesla and battery fire has naturally attracted widespread media attention. The company has previously argued that its cars are statistically much less likely to catch fire than a gasoline-powered vehicle in an accident. … [Read more...] about Two killed in Tesla Model S crash; NTSB to investigate fire

Updated PUBLISHED: 13:35 08 April 2018 | UPDATED: 17:05 08 April 2018 Jake Page, 19, who was tragically killed on his motorbike following a crash in Sudbury. Picture: SUPPLIED BY FAMILY Archant Tributes have been paid to a teenage motorcyclist who was tragically killed after a three-vehicle crash in Sudbury. Melford Road in Sudbury, where the accident happened. Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN Jake Page, from Great Waldingfield, died following a collision which involved two cars on Melford Road on Friday. The 19-year-old was airlifted to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge with life-threatening injuries following the collision, but later died. Suffolk police said Jake’s family would like to thank everyone for their love and support during this very difficult time. His family has also requested that well-wishers refrain from leaving roadside tributes to Jake at the scene of the crash. Flowers have been laid at the scene of a fatal road traffic collision on Melford Road … [Read more...] about Motorcyclist killed in fatal Sudbury crash named as Jake Page